Louis rosen feld



(No Model.) 1

L. ROSENFELD. GIGAR BOX.

No. 519,204. m1611181 May 1, 1894 1HE NAncmAL mnoamnmna commun wAsnmeon. u. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT Frioul,

LOUIS ROSENFELD, OF NEW YORK, Y., ASSIGNOR TO ROSENTHAL. A BROTHERS, `OF SAME PLACE.

y CIGAR-Box.

l SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 519,204, dated May 1, 1894.

Application and Apn'i `14. 1892.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, LoUIs RosENFELD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York,in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cigar-Boxes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

Up to the present it has been impossible for manufacturers and dealers to supply cigar smokers with a limited assortment of cigars of different sizes, flavors, strengths or qualities, in a convenient, cheap and salable f0rm,-although there is an almost universal want felt among smokers for a handy supply of cigars suitable for short-smokes or long-smokes as the users time will permit,or for mild, medium or strong cigars as 1. occasion and taste may demand.

The object of the present invention is to produce a box or package, the walls of which will be so constructed and arranged with relation to each other, and to the bottom and cover, as will insure the close fitting and iirm packmg of one, two or more layers or rows of cigars of diering sizes, shapes and lengths,- wthout adding to the labor of packing, or materially advancing the first cost above that of the boxes now in use'.

To this end, therefore, my invention conslsts, brieiiy speaking, in shaping the box, or package, so as to conform to the area occupied by a number of cigars of different lengths when arranged in regular gradation side by side. The gradation is essentially from both ,ends inward, that is to say in the horizontal plane the box is widest at the middle and narrowest at the ends, both ends being of the same width, and the area increasing regularly and evenly from the ends toward the central portion. The purpose of this special construction is to enable me to pack in one box approximately an even number of each of the dierent sizes of cigars usually desired by the customer. This regularity of packing in even numbers is also of great service in enabling the manufacturer and dealer to readily determine the price of such a box of. assorted sizes of cigars in the aggregate. In boxes adapted to contain twenty-uve cigars, there are gener- Seria1No.429,098. (No model.)

ally thirteen in the top row, and twelve in the bottom row, hence the only departure from the iixed rule of even numbers would be an 4cigars are packed in the box-in four rows,

this trifling irregularity disappears, as thereV would then be the even number of ten cigars of the largest size in the middle, and even numbers of each size of the other forty cigars. The same even result is also attained in boxes of one hundred, therefore the essential feature of my invention is preserved, as willbe readilyappreciatedlby the cigar trade.

For more complete comprehension of the improvement reference must be had to accompanying drawings forming part of this specification and which illustrate what I esteem to be the best means of carrying the same into practical effect.

In said drawings similar lettersof reference indicate like parts.

Figure l represents a plan view of one of the simplest forms of my improved cigar-box, with the cover open to show arrangement of contents. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken on the line X, X,-and Fig. 3 a cross section on line Z, Z, Fig. l the cover being represented as closed in these two figures. Figs. 4, 5, 6,and 7, are plans of different modifications of the box with cover removed enibodying the distinctive principle of my invention.

A represents the cover, connected to the box B by any suitable hinges ct, or by a pasted strip of canvas, paper or other material, in any of the ways at present employed.

b is the bottom board, b,- 192,* b3, b3, the front, back, and end walls respectively, nailed orotherwise fastened together in any suitable manner,-it being essential, however,to my improvement, that` either the back or front wall be of irregular, angular or curved form,

9 so as to present a regularly-graded variation of distance between front and back of the box,increasing from both ends toward the middle the two ends being in al1 cases of like width, and the angle extending therefrom to 10o the back or front of the box, or to both front and back Walls as the case may be, either terminating at the exact center-of such walls, or in the case where a curved wall is employed as in Figs. 4 and 5, continuous from end to end of the box,-or terminating a short distance from the center so as to leave a straight portion at the center of the wall, as in Figs. l, 6 and 7. Between such straight portions and the opposite parallel wall, as in Fig-1, or between two of such straight portions, as in Figs. 6 and 7, the longest cigars are placed, while the shortest cigars are at the ends of the box, the other sizes being evenly graded between ends and middle in singles, pairs, threes, or fours, according to the number of rows in the box. By this arrangement, an approximately even number of each size is provided for.

In cases where parts of the front (or back) Walls are set at an angle to the others, as at Z, Z, Figs. 1, 6, and 7 the boards may be sawed out separately and nailed, glued or fastened together with overlaid strips of cotton, paper, &c.,-or the angles may be formed by creasing and bending thin sheets of wood, or veneer, while hot or Wet, as may be preferred. The curved front and' rear walls, when such are employed, are preferably steamed, and

then secured to the ends b3, b3, in any work- 'l manlike manner.

The cover A may have special fastenings as shown at ct,-or the usual nail and pasted lstrip be employed to keep the box closed.

The cover A and the bottom board t, are preferably shaped to follow, or correspond with the area contained between the walls, but they may, if desired, be kept rectangular irrespective of the shape of the box as indicated in dotted lines sv, Fig. 6. Or these dotted lines x, may equally be held to 1ndicate the outer walls of the box as arranged rectangularly, and the strong lines Z, Z, as representing inner walls corresponding to the obtuse portions of the walls shown in F1gs.1 and 6.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

A cigar box or package for containing an approximately even number of each of several different sizes of cigars, made up of front wall b', and shorter end walls b3 of equal width, set rectangularly, back board b2 having angularly or obtusely-set portions Z, bottom board b, and hinged cover A,-the whole being arranged so that the greatest distance between front and back walls exists at the center, and the least distance at the ends,- substantially as set forth.

LOUIS ROSENFELD.

Witnesses:

E. J. FITZGERALD, E. A. LAMBERT. 

